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The Last Drop (2005) -- Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.
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User Rating:
4.7/10   1,443 votes
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Director:
Colin Teague
Writers:
Gary Young (screenplay) &
Colin Teague (screenplay)
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Release Date:
October 2008 (France) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Crime | War more
Tagline:
The fog of war... what better time for a robbery? more
Plot:
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Lots of Story Threads and Variety of Actors Stumbling to Find a Plot more (55 total)

Cast

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Laurence Fox ... SS Major Kessler
Louis Dempsey ... Snyder
Lucy Gaskell ... Benitta
Coral Beed ... Saskia

Andrew Howard ... Cpl Edward Banks
Jack Dee ... Warren

Neil Newbon ... Cpl Rhys Powell
Nick Moran ... Pvt Alan Ives
Rafe Spall ... Pvt. David Wellings

Tommy Flanagan ... Pvt Dennis Baker
Sean Pertwee ... Sgt Bill McMillan

Billy Zane ... Flt Sgt Robert Oates
Neil Jackson ... Flt Sgt Simkins

Steve Speirs ... Gustav Hansfeldt
Agathe de La Boulaye ... Katrina
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence.
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Germany:16 | UK:15 | USA:R | Finland:K-15 | Australia:M | Singapore:NC-16
Filming Locations:
MediaPro Studios, Bucharest, Romania more
Company:
Carnaby International more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The Jeep has an indicator switch on the steering column - Willy's Jeeps didn't have indicators. more
Quotes:
Cpl Ives: I know your face. North Africa, Royal Engineers, Black Watch. Horrible time it was. You get sand in places you never knew you had. more

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Lots of Story Threads and Variety of Actors Stumbling to Find a Plot, 28 April 2006
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Author: gradyharp from United States

THE LAST DROP could have been a better WW II film had the writer and director decided on the focus. The directorial choices vary from very fine (mixing black and white grainy shots from war footage with stagy though competent settings in color) to questionable (allowing a musical score including steel guitar music and contemporary sounds to intrude into a time when such instrumentation was not even known) to mediocre (allowing the actors to be caricatures instead of players in a tense drama).

Essentially the story is set before Christmas with the dropping of troops via gliders into Holland to secure a secret mission involving looted Nazi treasure. The Germans are fast-driving to capture it and send it to Berlin before the Allies land. The British team is determined to maintain custody of the goods until war's end. And then of course there is a group of self-promoting Germans who simply want to capture the treasure for their own reward. Not a bad set of conflicts, but the film's problems are centered on some bad casting choices that prevent the momentum from being as relentlessly forward as good war films should. Some of the cast members look so much alike that it becomes difficult to determine just who is who: in one case this is intentional as the plot reveals in its ending, but in most cases it is a problem due to cramped dialects, stiff acting, and over the top parody. With the exception of Billy Zane and Michael Madsen there are no big names here and in many ways that is a good thing because the two stars are the weakest characters.

Though the plot outline has possibilities - what is war but greed under different names - the mixture of ribald humor and gut-wrenching realism fail to make the story work. Grady Harp

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